# WARD-HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120126001264`
- **School name**: WARD-HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: OCALA, FL 34471
- **Address**: 537 SE 36TH AVE
- **District**: MARION (LEAID `1201260`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 29.18110, -82.08507
- **Phone**: (352)671-6810

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 908
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 60
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: A

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 37.0% (284 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.7% (116 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 15.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 60.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 6.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.4% — 131 students
- **English Learners**: 3.7% — 34 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 50 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,735
- **Federal share**: $2,229
- **State + local share**: $10,505
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,138,174
- **Federal share**: 21.4%
- **State share**: 43.3%
- **Local share**: 35.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,970,359

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $88,849
- **Poverty rate**: 4.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.3%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,333
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 37.0 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 19
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.09 miles (CITY PARKING LOT BETWEEN NW 3RD ST AND NW 2ND ST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OCALA, CITY OF (2 WTPS)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HILLCREST** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.32%)
- **OCALI CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.32%)
- **SILVER RIVER MENTORING AND INSTRUCTION** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.32%)
- **SOUTH OCALA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 1.27% (this school: 1.32%)
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.32%)

### ela proficiency
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 66.5%)
- **OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 67% (this school: 66.5%)
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 4.0 mi away, 82.5% (this school: 66.5%)
- **DR N H JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.4 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 66.5%)
- **INA A.COLEN ACADEMY** — 9.4 mi away, 73% (this school: 66.5%)

### math proficiency
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 81% (this school: 75%)
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 4.0 mi away, 81% (this school: 75%)
- **DR N H JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.4 mi away, 82% (this school: 75%)
- **INA A.COLEN ACADEMY** — 9.4 mi away, 79% (this school: 75%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ward-highlands-elementary-school-ocala/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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